Max Delbrück

After 1945 he helped to spread the news by setting up phage courses, still running today, at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, New York (see Susman 1995). It was a marvelous life until in 1914, when "the dam broke and swept away four decades of peace," as Max put it, adding that "my memories start with the war years: hunger, cold, substitute teachers, social pressure to engage in dismal patriotic war games."